Thursday, June 22, 2006

Cause, you know, the writing has been going rough in June. My muse must have taken that villa in Tuscany for a few weeks.

So, to come online and find the following is a sweet treat indeed:

I just read your "Voices from the Void" story that won the Sword Review competition. Because of how small the competition was (and low paying) and because of the "Christian" element, I assumed the story would be crap, the lesser of a handful of peurile and narrow minded evils.

So boy was I amazed to read it and find it one of the best sci-fi shorts I've ever read. Intelligent and evocative, rich in metaphor and symbol. Totally engrossing and imaginative. I loved the "hush" motif. Personally, I would have made "Hush" the title. I loved the way you use the stars as "punctuation" simile, the memorable, Kafka-esque characters.

Great piece of work. Deserves a much larger stage imo. Just wanted you to know, and to thank you.

No, Mr. Miller. I thank YOU!

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6 comments:

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said...

I meant every word Mirtika. I sent a link to your "Voices in the Void" story to a friend in the UK who edits/reads for Libbon (a small literary magazine) and teaches creative writing. He is a VERY critical dude usually.

Christopher Miller beat me to it. I'd started reading your story this week, looking for examples of good writing as I plug away, processing and learning. This morning I had time to finish reading and to beging pondering the good teaching in your artistic endeavor.

I'm not a SF/Fantasy writer, but there are those stories in "your" world that evidence meaning for this world more clearly than can realism. "Voices From The Void" is one such tale.

And "Hush" is one of my daughter's favorite Buffy episodes. I'm often slow to catch on, but I find value in the efforts of folks, like Joss Whedon, who ask important questions in fantastical ways. (Firefly became my favorite series.)

Keep up your talented efforts. Readers and writers will benefit, as will you, I'm sure.

thank you, and keep writing. Nothing would make me happier than to see an exposion in the ABA of people of faith writing excellent stuff that even people of non-faith can't help from enjoying, and maybe getting a bit of reflected gleam from God's eye in them.

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I'm a middle-aged, Cuban-American, Christian married gal living in a hot, crowded town prone to being smacked around by tropical storms and hurricanes. I've pretty much stopped writing, but I suspect that I will need to start again, as the itch always returns....